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it is a recipe to balloon the federal deficit at a phenomenal rate. it looks like her items were picked off of a menu of politically attractive items. they were, because they were like -- or picked off a list of items with it from someone else outside the state and you should be honest about the fact that these are not original ideas. these are ideas that have been tried and failed over and over again. -- >> mr. murphy -- >> it has not worked for this economy and it will not work for the future. >> we will have closing arguments at the end of the statement. we would invite you if you could to please keep to the questions. our next question is for mrs. mcmahon. >> let's talk about ways to improve social security. should payroll taxes be raised or should more income be applied to the payroll tax rate to improve social security? bill >> let me address again that congressman murphy has not been honest about my position on social security. let me be clear. i will support no budget that will reduce our benefits for social security or medicare. >> the questi
it is a recipe to balloon the federal deficit at a phenomenal rate. it looks like her items were picked off of a menu of politically attractive items. they were, because they were like -- or picked off a list of items with it from someone else outside the state and you should be honest about the fact that these are not original ideas. these are ideas that have been tried and failed over and over again. -- >> mr. murphy -- >> it has not worked for this economy and it will not work...
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the deficit is my -- my question is about the deficit. would you define in specific dollar goals how much you would reduce the deficit in each of the four years of a clinton administration and then enter into a legally binding contract with the american people that if you did not achieve those goals, that you would not seek a second term? answer yes or no and then comment on your answer, please. >> no, and here's why. and i'll tell you exactly why. because the deficit now has been building up for 12 years. i'll tell you exactly what i think can be done. i think we can bring it down by 50 percent in four years and grow the economy. now, i could get rid of it in four years in theory on the books now, but to do it, you'd have to raise taxes too much and cut benefits too much to people who need them. and it would even make the economy worse. mr. perot will tell you, for example, that the expert he hired to analyze his plan said that it will bring the deficit down in five years, but it will make unemployment bad for four more years. >> mr. pre
the deficit is my -- my question is about the deficit. would you define in specific dollar goals how much you would reduce the deficit in each of the four years of a clinton administration and then enter into a legally binding contract with the american people that if you did not achieve those goals, that you would not seek a second term? answer yes or no and then comment on your answer, please. >> no, and here's why. and i'll tell you exactly why. because the deficit now has been...
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we do not have an election beyond eight, nine, 10 states. people who do not have the right to vote to determine who are president might be. host: you write the way they calculate non-citizens may have an advantage for president obama in your opinion. you give more context writing -- wint: let's say republicans 28 and the democrats won 22 plus the district of columbia. that is a 56-46 advantage on the part of the republicans and therefore they would gain 10 electoral votes given that senators are lumped in. wyoming with one congressperson gets three electoral college votes because of the two senators. host: if you like to talk about electoral math and talk about how this affects the election, here are the numbers to call. let's hear from jamie in pennsylvania on their democrats line. good morning. caller: how are you today? i 100% agree with the professor. i do not agree with giving election -- extra electron college votes to states. how in god's good name do they do this? normally we get to vote on things like this. i did not see where we el
we do not have an election beyond eight, nine, 10 states. people who do not have the right to vote to determine who are president might be. host: you write the way they calculate non-citizens may have an advantage for president obama in your opinion. you give more context writing -- wint: let's say republicans 28 and the democrats won 22 plus the district of columbia. that is a 56-46 advantage on the part of the republicans and therefore they would gain 10 electoral votes given that senators...
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the one on october 16 at hofstra university and in the final one on october 22, lynn university in boca raton. you can go down the page and see what the high and low points were from last night's vice presidential debates. and you can continue to follow. of 381 comments have been made so far. it will -- it will be posted on all day long. sheila in ohio, why are you a first-time voter? caller: because for the first time in my life -- by the way, my husband is a first-time voter,, too. we are worried about the future. we have grandchildren. we think someone needs to step up for them and we need a change. host: by change, do you mean mitt romney? caller: i am definitely voting for mitt romney. there are several of us that are going to get on the bus and go down together to vote for mitt romney. i'm in the medical field and if obamacare passes, we will all be in trouble. it has got to change. i do not feel i put my grandson's future into the hands of somebody who has not gotten it right the first time around. how can we trust him with a second term? host: when you say you are going to get o
the one on october 16 at hofstra university and in the final one on october 22, lynn university in boca raton. you can go down the page and see what the high and low points were from last night's vice presidential debates. and you can continue to follow. of 381 comments have been made so far. it will -- it will be posted on all day long. sheila in ohio, why are you a first-time voter? caller: because for the first time in my life -- by the way, my husband is a first-time voter,, too. we are...
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it is a recipe to balloon the federal deficit at a phenomenal rate. it looks like her items were picked off of a menu of politically attractive items. they were, because they were like -- or picked off a list of items with it from someone else outside the state and you should be honest about the fact that these are not original ideas. these are ideas that have been tried and failed over and over again. -- >> mr. murphy -- >> it has not worked for this economy and it will not work for the future. >> we will have closing arguments at the end of the statement. we would invite you if you could to please keep to the questions. our next question is for mrs. mcmahon. >> let's talk about ways to improve social security. should payroll taxes be raised or should more income be applied to the payroll tax rate to improve social security? bill >> let me address again that congressman murphy has not been honest about my position on social security. let me be clear. i will support no budget that will reduce our benefits for social security or medicare. >> the questi
it is a recipe to balloon the federal deficit at a phenomenal rate. it looks like her items were picked off of a menu of politically attractive items. they were, because they were like -- or picked off a list of items with it from someone else outside the state and you should be honest about the fact that these are not original ideas. these are ideas that have been tried and failed over and over again. -- >> mr. murphy -- >> it has not worked for this economy and it will not work...
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it is at hofstra university in new york. the job for the president is to make of that ground and reassure the people who are with him and the undecided voters that he is in this thing and he wants to be reelected and he does have an argument to make against romney. he has to do it in the context of answering the questions of the voters. that is the structure of the debate. it is a trickier challenge. the third debate is foreign policy, which is another set of issues. >> the debate we will see a different obama and a different romney. but we see in the next debate? >> more of the eve project obama we saw on the trail that we are used to seeing. he held back. now he realizes he has to show that he wants it. he has to show he is hungry. george w. bruce uses said you have to ask the people for the vote. -- george w. bush is to say you have to ask the people for the boat. >> on the vice-presidential debate, will this be relevant? do people care who the vice presidential debate winner is? >> there should be a disclaimer across the
it is at hofstra university in new york. the job for the president is to make of that ground and reassure the people who are with him and the undecided voters that he is in this thing and he wants to be reelected and he does have an argument to make against romney. he has to do it in the context of answering the questions of the voters. that is the structure of the debate. it is a trickier challenge. the third debate is foreign policy, which is another set of issues. >> the debate we will...
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the battle is down to nine. ohio, iowa, virginia, north carolina, new hampshire. what's your take on that? guest: those are good states. the hope is michigan might be playing out. there's a pretty good list. virtually in all of those states, we're within a few points. that's where you see most of the candidates going. host: most of the money too. the arizona republic saying 92% ad spending concentrate on those nine states. independent from flint, michigan, brad you're next. caller: president obama in my opinion, he's done the best he can. i see that the republicans has done nothing to do everything that they say they're going to do. they say they want to create jobs and they are not helping the man create jobs or the democrats. for mitt romney to speak about a tax cut for himself, a pay raise for himself, it sounds ludicrous. i respect obama who say you can tax me. you take all the money out of flint, you don't have any police officers to help protect the citizens. what's your take on that? guest: well, sir, i would say that the record speaks for itself. he's been
the battle is down to nine. ohio, iowa, virginia, north carolina, new hampshire. what's your take on that? guest: those are good states. the hope is michigan might be playing out. there's a pretty good list. virtually in all of those states, we're within a few points. that's where you see most of the candidates going. host: most of the money too. the arizona republic saying 92% ad spending concentrate on those nine states. independent from flint, michigan, brad you're next. caller: president...
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and october 22. more of your calls and reactions on our twitter page. -- from our facebook page, there is this. -- >> you can join us on facebook or send us a tweet on our twitter page. our next call is from california. caller: i want to say i felt joe biden was right on. he won, hands down. he was very matter of fact. he knew what he was talking about. he pinpointed every issue and paul ryan just ramble on and on and did not commit himself to anything. he refers to the democrats cannot work with congress. it is because congress is, intentionally -- does not want to work with democrats. they are all republicans. very many of them want to make sure the democratic party looks bad. >> was there a moment from the debate that stood out in your own mind? caller: i think joe biden was so sincere, so committed to the middle-class people, i just really have 100%, 110% faith in him and president obama. i think our economy will get better. i see it around our area. it is starting to get better now. i believe it
and october 22. more of your calls and reactions on our twitter page. -- from our facebook page, there is this. -- >> you can join us on facebook or send us a tweet on our twitter page. our next call is from california. caller: i want to say i felt joe biden was right on. he won, hands down. he was very matter of fact. he knew what he was talking about. he pinpointed every issue and paul ryan just ramble on and on and did not commit himself to anything. he refers to the democrats cannot...
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good morning. >> a news at 8:34 a.m. eastern, iran says it has blocked a cyber attacks on the computer network of its offshore drilling platform. it's an e-official news agency says theis blaming israel for having planned the attack. the chairman of the house intelligence committee is warning that china's two leading technology firms pose a major security threat to the u.s. the panel says regulators should block mergers and acquisitions in the u.s. by the two companies. the results of the committee pose a yearlong investigation will be released this morning. last night, president obama doh about his performance in last week's first presidential debate, killing an audience in los angeles that included many celebrities in acting and movies, that he did not always performed flawlessly night after night, like them. -- telling the audience. the president is on a fund- raising tour of california where the cost to attend last night's dinner with $25,000 per person. republican presidential nominee mitt romney focuses on foreign
good morning. >> a news at 8:34 a.m. eastern, iran says it has blocked a cyber attacks on the computer network of its offshore drilling platform. it's an e-official news agency says theis blaming israel for having planned the attack. the chairman of the house intelligence committee is warning that china's two leading technology firms pose a major security threat to the u.s. the panel says regulators should block mergers and acquisitions in the u.s. by the two companies. the results of the...
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we just dropped below that at 7.8%. our national deficit has grown through $16 trillion. the president said he was gone to cut that in half, but it doubled under his watch. very disturbing is that when the president came into office there were 32 million americans on food stamps. today its 47 million. there is still an incredible number of ohioans and americans out there struggling. the choice is clear. we can have four more years like the last four. what america needs is a real recovery. only romney and ryan can provide that. host: when the president took office we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. since the president took office, we have 5.5 million additional jobs. truck about the automobile recovering, he saved the automobile industry and 1/88 jobs in the state are reflective of the auto industry. i worked the railroad 41 years. the guys and women working there, they're happy, jumping up and down because they have employment. one out of eight jobs are connected to the auto industry. not only that, the government at the time, strickland, and the president came to and y
we just dropped below that at 7.8%. our national deficit has grown through $16 trillion. the president said he was gone to cut that in half, but it doubled under his watch. very disturbing is that when the president came into office there were 32 million americans on food stamps. today its 47 million. there is still an incredible number of ohioans and americans out there struggling. the choice is clear. we can have four more years like the last four. what america needs is a real recovery. only...
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in 2010, there were one hundred 22 drones strikes. it went down and whether a 25% -- it went down another 25%. why is it going down? there has been a debate within the state department and cia. some feel that we are over using this tactic. the price of the program is alienating pakistani's. there are other factors that have caused this decline. there is increased congressional oversight. one congressman went on record with the "l.a. times" to really examine this program in more detail. another factor is a declining number of targets in the tribal areas. you have to be pretty stupid it or desperate to remain in their if you are a member of a terrorist organization. just to wrap this up, and it may be zuma out to a little bit further, -- and maybe zoom out of pakistan -- the arms -- the united states were only able to arm its funds in the post 911 era. there was discussion on who was going to pay with -- for the drones. the first victim was a military commander in the -- in out qaeda. the united states will not have a monopoly and on dr
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and so, when you take a look at this, it's really deeper than the deficits or the budget gimmicks or the actuaryial analysis. there really is a difference between us. and we've been talking about how much we agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us. and it's basically this. we don't think the government should be in control of all of this. we want people to be in control. and that at the end of the day is the big difference. now we've offered lots of ideas all last year, all this year. because we agree that the status quo is unsustainable. it's got to get fixed. it's bankrupting families. it's bankrupting our government. it's hurting families with pre-existing conditions. we all want to fix this. but we don't think that this is the answer to the solution and all of the analysis we get proves that point. now, i'll just simply say this and i respectfully disagree with the vice president about what the american people are or are not saying or whether we're qualified to speak on their behalf. -- [inaudible] >> we are all representatives of the american peopl
and so, when you take a look at this, it's really deeper than the deficits or the budget gimmicks or the actuaryial analysis. there really is a difference between us. and we've been talking about how much we agree on different issues, but there really is a difference between us. and it's basically this. we don't think the government should be in control of all of this. we want people to be in control. and that at the end of the day is the big difference. now we've offered lots of ideas all last...
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nine times i have raised my hand to take an oath to the constitution, and i have never violated that oath. i have not spent the last quarter century in pursuit of personal wealth. i have spent the last quarter century fighting for middle- class working men and women in the united states of america. i believe very deeply that you have to be willing to stand up and fight no matter what powerful forces might be on the other side. if you want somebody who is willing to fight for you, i am asking for your support and your vote and, yes, your confidence and your willingness to believe that we can do the right thing in america, and be the better for it. we've made some progress during the last eight years. we have seen the strongest economy in the history of the united states. lower crime rates for eight years in a row. highest private home ownership ever, but i'll make you one promise here. you ain't seen nothing yet. and i will keep that promise. >> governor bush, two minutes. >> well, jim, i want to thank you and thank the folks here at washington university and the vice president. appre
nine times i have raised my hand to take an oath to the constitution, and i have never violated that oath. i have not spent the last quarter century in pursuit of personal wealth. i have spent the last quarter century fighting for middle- class working men and women in the united states of america. i believe very deeply that you have to be willing to stand up and fight no matter what powerful forces might be on the other side. if you want somebody who is willing to fight for you, i am asking...
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we are at a crossroads in new hampshire. we're either going to be able to continue on the path we started and built with the governor or will choose a governor who would side with the extreme legislature and drive us backwards. i have an innovation plan that provides for targeted tax credits, technical assistance to our businesses, and a strong and skilled workforce so our businesses can compete and grow and create jobs. it is in stark contrast to what has been going on in our state the last two years and in stark contrast to the lack of a plan that my opponent has put forward. we need to focus on a skilled work force so that innovative companies will want to come to our state and we grow the economy. >> follow-up? >> ms, hassan, the report says the productivity of the labor force in recent years has lagged well behind some of our neighboring states. what one part of your jobs plan best addresses this challenge facing the state? >> first, the tax credits that i would like to double the research and development tax credit, so
we are at a crossroads in new hampshire. we're either going to be able to continue on the path we started and built with the governor or will choose a governor who would side with the extreme legislature and drive us backwards. i have an innovation plan that provides for targeted tax credits, technical assistance to our businesses, and a strong and skilled workforce so our businesses can compete and grow and create jobs. it is in stark contrast to what has been going on in our state the last...
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it was at the presentation of a new memorial. you want to talk about lobbyist, you're the number one recipient of money for lobbyist. i look out at this room. everybody out here is represented by somebody in washington d.c. i accept their information, you accept their cash, $1.8 million in the last two years from lobbyist and wall street. i learn from people and listen to people, i don't take their cash while attacking them on other end. guyt's interesting for a who hit $25,000 in lobbyist money and he should have reported it and did not transparent about it. for a guy who has taken off tens of millions of dollars of money ad hoc. who's bought commercials for the last year in a half trying to define something i'm not. it's rich that you point this out. look, you are the one that was a paid lobbyist. you were the one that told lobbyist that you depend on them to make your decisions. you the guy who said the revolving door isn't a big deal. it is a big deal. it is tough when you point a finger at somebody and three are pointing str
it was at the presentation of a new memorial. you want to talk about lobbyist, you're the number one recipient of money for lobbyist. i look out at this room. everybody out here is represented by somebody in washington d.c. i accept their information, you accept their cash, $1.8 million in the last two years from lobbyist and wall street. i learn from people and listen to people, i don't take their cash while attacking them on other end. guyt's interesting for a who hit $25,000 in lobbyist...
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history in new york, pennsylvania, and at the pentagon. it was that anniversary that caused an organization aligned with al qaeda to attack and kill our personnel. i deeply appreciate secretary clinton's efforts to cooperate with this investigation. she stepped in and instructed her people to cooperate and they have. additionally, if i have had conversations directly with the secretary and i believe our service together since 2001 in the u.s. congress plays no small part in her recognition of the role we serve on both sides of the dome. today, however, this hearing has been called for the express purpose of examining security failures that led to the benghazi tragedy. safe-haven within the compound, which some state department officials seemed to think could protect the benghazi compound inhabitants, did not work. in retrospect, it cannot be expected to work. the overall level of security at the compound did not meet the threat or standards under any reasonable assessment for a facility of this kind. today's hearing is the result of concer
history in new york, pennsylvania, and at the pentagon. it was that anniversary that caused an organization aligned with al qaeda to attack and kill our personnel. i deeply appreciate secretary clinton's efforts to cooperate with this investigation. she stepped in and instructed her people to cooperate and they have. additionally, if i have had conversations directly with the secretary and i believe our service together since 2001 in the u.s. congress plays no small part in her recognition of...